Paudras, Francis

Abstract: Francis Paudras (1935-1997) was an artist, amateur pianist, and jazz enthusiast who developed a close friendship with jazz bebop pianist, Bud Powell (1924-1966). In the early 1960s, Paudras invited Powell to live with him in his Paris apartment, where he became Powell’s caretaker and unofficial manager. The Francis Paudras collection on Bud Powell documents Paudras’s friendship with Powell and includes home movies, interviews about Powell, scrapbooks, footage of Powell’s 1966 funeral...